A big CONGRATS to all of our Ideas on Fire clients who published books this year! You rock!! 1. Ronak Kapadia, Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War (Duke University Press) 2. Frances Richard, I Stand in My Place With My Own Day Here:...
Posts by Cathy Hannabach
100th Episode of Imagine Otherwise!
Host Cathy Hannabach reflects on 3 years of interviewing artists, activists, and academics about building better worlds through culture and creativity.
Imagine Otherwise: Kiki Petrosino on Writing from the Body
Cathy Hannabach interviews poet Kiki Petrosino about her new book Witch Wife, documentary poetic, and teaching students how to write from and with place.
Imagine Otherwise: Fobazi Ettarh on the Limits of Vocational Awe
Cathy Hannabach interviews librarian Fobazi Ettarh on radical librarianship, vocational awe, and how feminists of color are making libraries more just.
Imagine Otherwise: Melody Jue on Thinking through Seawater
Cathy Hannabach interviews ocean humanities scholar Melody Jue about scuba diving as a humanities research methodology, seaweeds, and climate justice.
Imagine Otherwise: Sarah Stefana Smith on a Poetics and Politics of Bafflement
Cathy Hannabach interviews artist and scholar Sarah Stefana Smith about transnational Black art, artistic collaboration, and imagining otherwise.
Imagine Otherwise: Anthony Romero on Sound and Socially Engaged Art
Cathy Hannabach interviews artist and educator Anthony Romero about the racial politics of sound, the Latinx Artists Retreat, and socially engaged art.
Imagine Otherwise: Emilly Prado on Making Space for Creativity
Cathy Hannabach interviews DJ, journalist, and creative Emilly Prado about the Black and Brown artivism scene in Portland.
Imagine Otherwise: Amber Jamilla Musser on Valuing Embodied Knowledge
Cathy Hannabach interviews feminist scholar Amber Jamilla Musser about the racial and gender politics of aesthetics and the importance of embodied knowledge.
How Interdisciplinarity Builds New Worlds: Dismantle Magazine Interview
Dismantle Magazine’s interview with Cathy Hannabach about hosting the Imagine Otherwise podcast, building Ideas on Fire, and championing interdisciplinary work.
Imagine Otherwise: Sandra Ruiz on Resetting the Colonial Clock
Cathy Hannabach interviews curator and scholar Sandra Ruiz about her new book Ricanness, Puerto Rican sovereignty, and imagining otherwise.
Imagine Otherwise: Tania Lizarazo on Listening and Learning in Public
Cathy Hannabach interviews Tania Lizarazo about community-engaged scholarship, digital storytelling, and listening and learning together in public.
Imagine Otherwise: Alix Olson on Transitioning from Performer to Professor
Cathy Hannabach interviews Alix Olson about transitioning into academia from slam poetry, creative pedagogy, and queering kinship and family.
Imagine Otherwise: Ebony Elizabeth Thomas on Leaving No One Behind
Cathy Hannabach interviews Ebony Elizabeth Thomas about young adult and children’s lit, race in speculative fiction, and social justice pedagogy.
A Farewell to Ibid.: Editing Footnotes at ACES
I have a new co-authored article (with Sarah Grey) out on the process of editing footnotes and endnotes. A Farewell to Ibid.: Editing Footnotes at ACES As editors from around the United States and the world gathered in Providence, Rhode Island, for the annual ACES...











